Favourite warship name?

[Boyo_Jim]

@carlb

I’ve always been partial to Intrepid. Besides evoking a wholly appropriate attitude for a warship, it just rolls off the tongue nicely (I think).

Back when I was a kid I had a plastic model kit of the Original Series-era Enterprise. The kit came with lots of decals to make other ships in Starfleet, and I always intended to build Intrepid. Never did get around to finishing it.

That’s the name I came in to say.

The original was an actual navy ship long before Star Trek. An aircraft carrier that served from WWII though Vietnam, she is now a floting naval museum in NYC.

Actually there were probably Intrepids before her… the name has a British ring to it.

[OtakuLoki]

@Boyo_Jim

Actually there were probably Intrepids before her… the name has a British ring to it.

The first USS Intrepid was a vessel captured during the campaign against the Barbary Pirates. She was the ship used to burn the USS Philapelphia after that frigate had been run aground and been captured. Later she was converted to a bomb vessel, and lost in an attempt to destroy the rest of the Tripolitan fleet in harbor.

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

According to Wiki, the first HMS Intrepid was a renamed captured French vessel (the Serieux) from 1747.

[carnivorousplant]

@Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party

a renamed captured French vessel (the Serieux) from 1747.

There were a lot of those.

[GIGObuster]

For me it is the old Spanish ship that was captured by the buccaneer Sir Francis Drake: the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, better known in history as the Cagafuego (or Cacafuego).

Literally: the "FireShitter" or “ShitFirer”!!

[carnivorousplant]

@GIGObuster

Literally: the "FireShitter" or “ShitFirer”!!

HIs Most Holy Catholic Majesty’s Navy would give that name to a ship?

[GIGObuster]

@carnivorousplant

HIs Most Holy Catholic Majesty’s Navy would give that name to a ship?

It was the nickname the Spanish sailors had given to the ship. It was so famous that the original name is usually not mentioned when the history is told.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1580pretty-Drake.html

To Lima we came the 13. of February; and, being entered the haven, we found there about twelve sail of ships lying fast moored at an anchor, having all their sails carried on shore; for the masters and merchants were here most secure, having never been assaulted by enemies, and at this time feared the approach of none such as we were. Our General rifled these ships, and found in one of them as chest full of reals of plate, and good store of silks and linen cloth; and took the chest into his own ship, and good store of the silks and linen. In which ship he had news of another ship called the Cacafuego,10 which was gone towards Payta, and that the same ship was laden with treasure. Whereupon we stayed no longer here, but, cutting all the cables of the ships in the haven, we let them drive whither they would, either to sea or to the shore; and with all speed we followed the Cacafuego toward Payta, thinking there to have found her.

Even in Spanish sites, the most famous nickname is still mentioned:

Captura del Jabeque-Fragata español Cacafuego

[carnivorousplant]

@GIGObuster

It was the nickname the Spanish sailors had given to the ship.

Thanks.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

USS Voyager (from the ST series of the same name) was an Intrepid-class starship: Intrepid class | Memory Alpha | Fandom.

I’ll second those who’ve already voted for USS Carondelet, USS Monitor and USS Constitution. I’d add USS Lexington, USS Saratoga, USS Amphitrite, USS Yorktown, USS Gettysburg and USS Kearsarge, each of which have a lot of great history behind them.

HMS Endeavour, HMS Discovery (both honored by U.S. space shuttles), HMS Agincourt and HMS Trafalgar have some particularly good mental associations, as does HMY Britannia.

The Pillar of Autumn was the starship from the videogame Halo; I always thought that was a cool name.

[bouv]

@Elendil_s_Heir

The Pillar of Autumn was the starship from the videogame Halo; I always thought that was a cool name.

Damn you. We get to three pages and no one had mentioned it yet, and I was all like “yeah, I get to do it!” and then you did it. You stole my moment, you bastard!

But another good name from Halo is the “Truth and Reconciliation.”

[Gukumatz]

Always felt the RNoN had some good ones. Of course, I might be biased.

HNoMS Skjold (“Shield”)
HNoMS Skudd (“Shot”)
HNoMS Steil (“Stubborn”)
HNoMS Gnist (“Spark”)
HNoMS Valkyrien (“Valkyre”)
HNoMS Tyr (Tyr - the Norse God of War)

The Germans also have had some good ones, like the Blücher and the Bismarck.

And Sweden has had some truly unforgettable ones -
HMS Tapperheten (“The Bravery”)
HMS Mannligheten (“The Manliness”)

'Course, I’ve got some British favourites as well -
HMS Black Prince
HMS Zealous
HMS Monarch
HMS Swiftsure
HMS Inflexible

[Boyo_Jim]

I always thought Blucher sounded like someone with gas.

[si_blakely]

I’m adding my vote to HMS Iron Duke, too - our friends son is a gunner on board, and every time someone uploads a video of Iron Duke blowing holes in a drug-running boat, I imagine him having a great time.

And Thunderchild, too

Si

[Sailboat]

@OtakuLoki

I think that HMS Thor is a good name for a warship, though I doubt that The Thunderer would have been pleased to be named for an ambush hunter.

An HMS Thunderer fought at Trafalgar. I do like that name and have used it for ships I’ve built in computer games.